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Here are a few video clips from the discussion:

• Business Partnerships, Relationships and Trust.
• Working with a Partner to help meet a Client Objectives.
• Contractors, Vendors and meeting client needs.
• Handling Partnership Challenges.
• Partner Expertise and Education.
• Post-Interview: Thoughts on the Value of Business Partnerships.

Connect with Traci: 

You can connect with Traci on Linkedin and by visiting Temple-IT.com. 

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• Difference between Individual Contributor to Business Leader.
• Defining a Win as Individual Contributor vs Business Leader.
• Challenges when Moving into Tech Management.

You can connect with Jason on Linkedin, Facebook and Github. 

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Useful Links:

• You can connect with Sean on Linkedin. 
• Regulatory Compliance in the United States. 

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Here are some short video clips of topics discussed:

• What has changed in Business Analytics?
• What is your approach to creating data visualizations?
• Free/Low cost data visualization tools for small businesses.
• What type of data visualization recommendations do you offer to larger businesses that do not have tool/platform preferences?
• What were you doing with CDC?
• What drove you to Analytics & Data Visualization as a Career?

Useful Links:

• You can connect with Teneika on her website, Twitter and Linkedin.
• Tools include PowerQuery, PowerBI, Tableau, Google Data Studio and SAP Tools.
• Though it is important to implement a new platform/solution, it is equally as important to inform and educate end-users on how to utilize the new platform or solution.
• Every career/job has a data component – Do make an effort to learn how to utilize data as a skill. Doing so will enhance your skill-set and help you enhance your career.
• College students should look into scholarship, internship and other opportunities offered by their university like the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and INROADS internships.
• For those who are new to data visualizations, start with Microsoft Excel, work to graduate from a beginner Excel user to an advanced Excel user, then learn Microsoft Power BI and Tableau.
• Microsoft currently offers free Power BI training, Tableau Prep & Tableau Desktop are not free unless you are a student, freeCodeCamp and SimpliLearn.

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Here are some short video clips of topics discussed:

• What does Tectonic Speed of Government mean?
• How do you interact with the local college (University of Illinois)?
• How to get role working in Technology and Government?
• Journey to a Career in Technology & Government.
• Sales Cycle & Technology.
• Skills & Experience we look for in New Employees.
• Training & Education for Technology Generalists.

Useful Links

• You can connect with Sanford on his website and Linkedin. 
• The Tectonic Speed of Government is the website where Sanford shares his thoughts on Government, IT, Change, Government IT Change … and Movies.
• Sanford recommends that aspiring technology professional consider Google IT Support Professional Certificate.

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• Why I wrote Women of Color in Tech.
• 2 Challenges that Women of Color face in Tech Careers.
• How men can help create opportunities for Women of Color in Tech?
• 3 Career Options for Women of Color in Tech.
• What is a Cloud Technical Specialist?
• What is the Difference between a Coach, Mentor and Sponsor?
• How to Close Technical Skill Gaps?
• Salary Negotiations: What you need to know.
• Introverts: Successful Client & Group Interactions.

Useful Links:

• You can connect with Susanne on her website, Twitter and Linkedin. 
• You can get Susanne’s new book, Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators, by visiting WeBelongInTech.com.

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Here are some short video clips of topics discussed:

• How Business Intelligence & Data Science Differ
• 2 ways to get into Business Intelligence and Data Science
• The Programming and Querying Languages of Data Analytics
• 2 Important Resources for a Data Consultant
• What events and conferences do you use to build your network?
• Resources to get started in Data Science

Useful Links:

• The best way to connect with Chris Hyde is on Twitter. He can also be found on Linkedin.
• Chris Recommends the following books:
• Learning R by Richard Cotton.
• R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data by Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund.
• Think Stats: Exploratory Data Analysis by Allen Downey.

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Why? Two reasons.

1. Video recording your presentation offers three ways to get constructive feedback ↓
2. Video recording your presentation offers three forms of content creation ↓

T-SQL Tuesday is the monthly blog party started by Adam Machanic (blog | twitter).

For T-SQL Tuesday #84, Andy Yun (blog | twitter) is encouraging experienced speakers to post something to help grow new speakers. Here’s my take on the subject.

Video recording your presentation offers three ways to get constructive feedback.

1. Watch & listen to the original video to learn: “What happened and to get a general feel for how well you delivered your message/content”.

Questions to ask yourself:

• Were you able to make a connection with the audience?
• Was the audience responsive and engaged? What specifically kept the audience engaged or detracted from their engagement?
• Did you involve the audience?
• Did you use humor and/or stories?

2. Listen to the audio (without video) to learn: “How your voice sounds, what you stated and what noises you made”.

Questions to ask yourself:

• Was their variety in your pitch, pace and volume? How did this support or detract from your delivery?
• Were your words clear, to the point and appropriate?
• What were the vocal reactions from the audience vocal reactions from the audience to your stories and/or jokes?

3. Watch the video (without audio) to learn: “How you used your body and the stage”.

Questions to ask yourself:

• Did you maximize the use of the entire platform area or stand in one location?  How did this enhance or detract from your delivery?
• Were you visible to the audience or were you hidden behind something like a podium or computer screen?
• How did you utilize your hands and did the use of your hands support or detract from your delivery?

Ready to take it one step further. Keep reading.

Video recording your presentation offers three forms of content creation.

1. Vlog: Video Blogging.

Sometimes people don’t feel like reading an article. In those instances having a video is a great alternative. If you really like the video from your speech then you can upload it to your website/blog as a new form of content to showcase your topic and your excellent platform skills. Alternatively, you can upload it to your favorite video hosting website like YouTube or Vimeo and then embed the video into your website/blog.

2. Podcast: Podcasting.

People like to consume information while they’re on the move – at the gym, on the train, driving, etc. In those instances listening to your podcast is a great option. Utilizing your video recorded presentation, you can easily extract the audio from the video and “BAM” you have a podcast episode. There are a lot of free and paid tools that will aid you in extracting the audio from the video. Next, you can upload the audio file to your site or upload it to your favorite podcast hosting website like iTunes, Libsyn and SoundCloud – then embed it in your website/blog.

3. Blog: Blogging.

Written text is probably the most widely used medium on the web. Get your video recorded presentation transcribed and now “DOUBLE BAM” you can use the transcribed text (or a portion of the text) as content for your blog post. Again there are free and paid options for transcribing the text in your video into a downloadable file.  Alternatively, some of the video hosting sites will transcribe the text of your video for you. All you have to do is download the transcribed text, edit it and then post it to your site. Currently, YouTube has options for automatically transcribing the text of your YouTube video.

As you continue to speak to audiences, video record each speech/presentation and follow the advice above, you’ll quickly find that your skills as a technical speaker are rapidly improving and your web content is quickly growing.

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Edwin Ukpaby, Healthcare I T Professional and CEO of Medix Systems Consultants, met with us to discuss how technology in the healthcare industry has evolved with healthcare business processes.

Originally posted at www.greattechpros.com.

Excerpt from the Interview:

Wylie Blanchard: I T is at a point where we have to be more than “you tell me the problem and I’ll fix it”and we have to look End to End, all the way through to the end of the solution. Is this what you see or an expert, or could an expert just be “you tell me the problem and I’ll fix it” or is an expert more than that?

Edwin Ukpaby: …Years ago technology was something that only the large companies had… As we got into the mini computer era of the medium sized company, and then we went into the micro computer era, more of the progressive professionals was getting involved in it. So there was a time when you were exclusively in that high end club. You’re always going to need it because when you’re in that high end club you need a multitude of skill sets to bring to the table. The reality is when you go to the smaller ones they don’t have the resources to support multiple teams so they need smaller teams with broader skill sets to be able to deliver solutions. We need to package the solutions in a way where, when it is deployed, the deployment process is less complex. So people that think process combined with technology and combined with the unique traits and requirements of the specific industry, in this case, healthcare are going to be the most effective. So that is typically what I would look for. It doesn’t necessarily mean that each individual candidate has to have all of those skill sets but I would want that aptitude and that mind set because it’s not always easy to teach that unless you have someone who is really passionate about adopting that approach and recognizes the importance… Really, the good news is that there’s room to accommodate the traditional way that we’ve done I T and this new paradigm shift. It just happens that this new shift is the new area of opportunity in I T.

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Originally posted at www.greattechpros.com.

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Dan Rey, Solution Architect of Microsoft, sat down with us to share what he has learned over his career as a technology professional.

Originally posted at www.greattechpros.com.

Excerpt from the Interview:

Wylie Blanchard: What have you seen in your twenty plus years or what interesting has changed in the 20 plus years that you’ve been an I T professional?

Dan Rey: One thing that I’ve noticed in the 20 plus years is that a lot of the technology is shifting almost like a pendulum. So when I started in computers Windows 95 was just coming out. We were using the operating systems and the capabilities before Windows 95 and many things kind of shifted to a server or a client server focus from a development perspective and a use case perspective in large corporations and then things shifted back to kind of powering you on the device that you’re using whether it’s your phone whether it’s your laptop or your desktop and then the internet started up and things shifted back to server based computing whether those servers were on premise or in the cloud didn’t really matter. It was still kinda that pendulum swinging back to something that’s not on your device locally. Seeing some of these shifts that kind of seem to just going back and forth with either empowering on the devices that you’re using locally or empowering on something that you use remotely.

Wylie Blanchard: Are there any books, literature or educational material that you highly recommend?

Dan Rey: That’s a great question. Being in this for more than 20 years some of my early memories were picking up books when the next version of Windows comes out. You look for the technical books that explain, kind of, behind the use case or explain just how to use the operating  system. You can go through and read about the tip and tricks and the things that you wouldn’t just learn by using the operating system. You really need somebody kind of guiding you to those areas because they’re not easy to discover on your own – or they might be too technical. Once discovered you need guidance on what to do once you get there. Today, a lot of that has moved back to automation and command line capabilities. So books on PowerShell would be a recommendation for somebody getting into I T….

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Originally posted at www.greattechpros.com.

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